12 Days of Christmas

Creating a grungy junk journal is not as easy as it sounds, as I found out after starting this project. Everything takes twice as long because you end up having to make everything look grungy, antique or vintage. Lots of coffee/tea dyed papers and lots of inks.

My cover is still in pieces because to add the dimension before the end would make it so much harder to handle.

The leaves and pears are just laying in place.

The pages are crinkly and blotched throughout.

Now to create tags and tucks and maybe a mini booklet somewhere.

Back to a Tag (super tag)

 

 When your tag is a tri-fold, contains various smaller tags and even has multiple pages to journal on it is either a mini journal or a SUPER TAG.

The insides began with pockets, lots of pockets.

And ended up looking like this.

Rather sad front.

PDC IMO.

This new group is good for my creative inner self.

I've been making paper bags into "stuffies".

Stuffies seem to be any bit or piece of art work used inside or to enhance a junk journal.

These I made out of flat paper bags folded into a card and enhanced. I added pockets to some of the insides. And teabag shaped booklets to the pockets. One I even made a book to fit inside the pocket created by the bag.

I ended up making 5 stuffies

This is the only one that has fabric as the focal point

The layering is not as easy as it looks. For me it is a struggle for everything not to be perfect.

I was gifted this pink burlap ribbon

I ended up making 3 with the pink pockets and teabag booklets

This is the only one made so the pocket formed by the bag is to the back

2 tags for the book-page pocket and a fan folded booklet for the bag pocket